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February 9th – June 30th 2018 the collaborative project ‘Meanings of Failed Action: Insurrection 1946’, will be re-intalled in Kiran Nadar Museum of Art as part of Vivan Sundarem’s 50 year career retrospective. Click here for details.

2017-18 – Currently working on collaborative installation / film project with Finnish filmmaker / artist Aimo Hyvärinen with support of AVEK Finland. The project, Art as Problematic Waste, should go into full production in 2018.

March 17th-30th, 2017 -Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Museum, Mumbai. A collaborative project on the 1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny, with visual artist Vivan Sundaram and cultural historians Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Valentina Vitalii. I will be producing an 8-channel sound piece for the installation.

March 2017 – A new article on ‘Context-based Composition and the Ecological Theory of Perception’ published in Organised Sound. Please click here for details.

September 2016– A new article on sound in underwater films published in The New Soundtrack journal. Click here for details

The material used in the performance piece ‘Doggerland’, (a part of exhibition ‘River’, curated by Pete Cobb and Richard Wilson University of East London, March 4th 2015 ), is currently being edited into a film by Simon Miles. A rough documentation video of the performance can be found here: https://vimeo.com/122096073